Oh goody, an open letter.

Open Letter: “Biological Sex” and Its Variants are Transphobic Slurs

Says Trans Advocacy & Complaints Collective, which I suppose is a person and a phone.

To our Public bodies, MPs, and Media outlets,

When considering the language we use to address a group, particularly a minority group, the most precise and respectful term is the language they choose for themselves. This is a widely accepted principle of respect, yet in recent years, it has been inexplicably overlooked when it comes to addressing transgender people and the trans community as a whole.

Is it? Is it? Is it really?

I don’t think so. The words “a group” can mean almost anything. Say you have … Read the rest

The reporting on trans issues is such a hodgepodge of incoherent language and bizarre assumptions. Reuters for instance:

Transgender minors. Transgender soldiers. Transgender characters in books.

The U.S. Supreme Court‘s latest term was bursting with fodder for America’s culture wars, few more so than three cases touching on transgender rights. The court, powered by its 6-3 conservative majority, in each case ruled against transgender plaintiffs or their interests more broadly.

But what if the putative rights are not rights in the first place? It’s not just obvious that men have a right to force themselves on women in women’s spaces provided they claim to be trans women. I, for one, don’t think they do have such a right, … Read the rest

Bad deceptive anti-informative journalism yet again.

Trans athlete wins USA Cycling women’s event as female opponents protest and speak out

MALE athlete you dishonest panderers. The problem is that he’s male.

A trans-identifying athlete won a women’s cycling event that was officially sanctioned by USA Cycling on Tuesday, prompting female opponents to protest and speak out. 

A MALE trans-identifying athlete. Decent journalism does not hide the most important aspect of a story.

The trans athlete, Kate Phillips, won first place at the Lyons Masters National Championships in Wisconsin on Tuesday. Phillips beat out veteran women’s cyclist Julie Peterson for the gold, and Peterson then refused to take the podium at the medal ceremony in protest. 

Think he’s huge enough?

Fellow

Originally a comment by Dave Ricks on The rights of female athletes.

I looked up this source material:

PRESS RELEASE

U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Finds the University of Pennsylvania Has Violated Title IX

APRIL 28, 2025

PRESS RELEASE

U.S. Department of Education Announces the University of Pennsylvania Has Entered into a Resolution Agreement to Resolve its Title IX Violations

JULY 1, 2025

I see 3 things: (1) The words “male” and “female” appear extensively in both press releases, to explain the government case against UPenn in terms of sex discrimination; (2) The phrase “trans” does not appear in either press release; (3) The phrase “gender” appears only once, in the July 1 press release, to … Read the rest

Just one little thing here.

Penn to ban trans women from women’s sports

By Tuesday afternoon, the Penn website showed other athletes holding the school’s top times in Thomas’ events. The site was annotated with a note that read, “Competing under eligibility rules in effect at the time, Lia Thomas set program records in the 100, 200 and 500 freestyle during the 2021-22 season.”

“While Penn’s policies during the 2021-2022 swim season were in accordance with NCAA eligibility rules at the time, we acknowledge that some student-athletes were disadvantaged by these rules,” Penn President J. Larry Jameson said. “We recognize this and will apologize to those who experienced a competitive disadvantage or experienced anxiety because of the policies in effect

Alice Sullivan in The Times:

In the past decade, British academics have been attacked, vilified and ostracised simply for asserting that sex is real, binary and important. 

Very important indeed, I should think. Without it we wouldn’t exist!

In a climate where people are frightened to express their views or even to ask questions, universities have a responsibility to act as bastions of critical analysis, where reasoned debate and the pursuit of knowledge thrive. This is not only about protecting individuals but also the integrity of scientific research and scholarship.

Instead, universities have, perhaps unwittingly, institutionalised behaviours which undermine free speech and inquiry. Equality, diversity and inclusion policies and networks have been turned against groups they are supposed to protect,

There are many “Lemkin Institute” debunkers out there, fortunately, because there are also lots of credulous fools citing it as if it were a genuine human rights “institute” as opposed to one fanatic with no scruples.

Always remember the CEO of this organisation (run by a bunch of volunteers with no connection to Lemkin) transed her own daughter and believes that anyone who rejects trans ideology is genocidal, whilst the project ignores actual genocides.

They have zero credibility. https://t.co/JCw7UyvG0P pic.twitter.com/TBr8cUDLZH

— FeministRoar (@FeministRoar) July 2, 2025

https://twitter.com/yatakalam/status/1940358282696409310

Beware of people setting up bogus “institutes” that are really just a person and a laptop.

Remember the “Secular Policy Institute”? Yeah, like that.… Read the rest

UN Women:

15 years ago, @UN_Women was created.

Today, we continue to stand up for the rights, equality, and empowerment of the world’s 4 billion women and girls.

We will never back down. We will never give up.

Join us in driving change #ForAllWomenAndGirls: https://t.co/NcpkpZ7tVw pic.twitter.com/YTTCEU8rpt

— UN Women (@UN_Women) July 2, 2025

Also UN Women:

#Trans women have the right to recognition of their self-identified gender – but in most countries, this is not available or subject to abusive restrictions.
This makes even everyday tasks difficult & potentially dangerous.

Let’s demand change: https://t.co/9FUJoNVare#AllWomen pic.twitter.com/93dCCCLgEU

— UN Women (@UN_Women) January 10, 2023

You do the math.… Read the rest

Of course CNN does the usual.

Some critics claim transgender athletes have an unfair advantage in sports, but that’s not what the research shows.

While research is limited and ongoing, a 2017 review in the peer-reviewed journal Sports Medicine found “no direct or consistent research” showing trans people have an athletic advantage.

No, dummy, of course “trans people” as such don’t, but men do, and trans women are men. It’s men who have the advantage, because men do have an array of physical advantages over women, which is why women have a separate category. Trans is used as a screen for that, to enable men like William Thomas to cheat.

Thomas has not commented publicly on the latest lawsuit.

Holy shit “Lia” Thomas has to give it all back. FINALEEEEEE!!!

The University of Pennsylvania says it will update records set by transgender swimmer Lia Thomas and apologize to female athletes “disadvantaged” by Thomas’ participation on the women’s swimming team, part of a resolution of a federal civil rights case.

The U.S. Education Department and Penn announced the voluntary agreement Tuesday. The case focused on Thomas, the transgender swimmer who last competed for the Ivy League school in Philadelphia in 2022, when she HE became the first openly transgender athlete to win a Division I title.

The department investigated Penn as part of the Trump administration’s broader attempt to remove transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports, finding the

It’s not just trans ideology that hates women.

Dear Helen Lewis: @helenlewis @TheAtlantic

Remember when I tried warn everyone about this for years way out ahead of the curve and your response was to do everything you could to damage my public reputation?

This catastrophe lays at the feet of people who think exactly as… https://t.co/UShO0JWySJ

— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) June 30, 2025

Remember when I tried warn everyone about this for years way out ahead of the curve and your response was to do everything you could to damage my public reputation? This catastrophe lays [sic] at the feet of people who think exactly as you do

70 million views, ma'am.
Disgraceful.https://t.co/dA22yWqAwP

Have you learned anything?

Churches are not institutions set up to sort truth from fiction. Result: they’re not good at it.

The Church of Scotland flouted the law on single-sex spaces by wrongly insisting that biological men could still share female lavatories with girls, it has emerged.

A mother raised concerns that at least one man from an LGBT club was using female facilities at a church-run community centre in Cupar, Fife, where her 11-year-old daughter attended a drama class. She was told by the church that it was “lawful and often appropriate” for “women-only spaces to include trans women”, despite the Supreme Court ruling in April.

There you go. The truth is it’s neither lawful nor appropriate, but how is the church … Read the rest

Huh. The BBC admits it left out important details in a story about the usual subject. I haven’t seen it do that before.

A Guernsey teenager has been sentenced to almost three years in youth detention for child sexual offences, according to Guernsey Police.

The force said 18-year-old transgender woman Jessica Garnham-Burton was arrested in May 2024 for using social media platform Snapchat to speak to children.

That second sentence is a tweak. At the foot of the article we get:

This story was updated on 1 July 2025 to make it clear that Jessica Garnham-Burton is a trans woman and will be held in the male wing of the detention facility.

NOW DO THAT WITH ALL SUCH STORIES.… Read the rest

It all depends on how you look at it.

US Supreme Court tosses rulings that favored transgender people

Did they favor trans people though? Depends on how you look at it.

The U.S. Supreme Court threw out on Monday judicial decisions that favored transgender people in cases from North Carolina, West Virginia, Idaho and Oklahoma, including in legal challenges to state health insurance programs that deny coverage for patients seeking gender-affirming medical treatment.

That’s a car-crash of a sentence. The issue isn’t “favoring” trans people, it’s whether there is such a thing as “gender-affirming medical treatment.” Affirming gender isn’t really a medical category – gender itself isn’t really a medical category. Sex is, and sex is not switchable.

What the … Read the rest

When worlds collide.

The BBC has said it regrets livestreaming a Glastonbury performance by the punk-rap duo Bob Vylan on Saturday, with the prime minister and Ofcom among those to weigh in on the incident.

…

In the run-up to Glastonbury, the BBC was under pressure over how it would treat the performance by the Irish-language rap group Kneecap, since one of the band had been charged with a terrorism offence.

But it was an act that appeared on the same West Holts stage before that has left the BBC expressing regret over its editorial decisions. Pascal Robinson-Foster – of the punk-rap duo Bob Vylan – led chants of “Death, death to the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]”. He

Broadcasters must air view that trans women are women, says Ofcom

Broadcasters must give airtime to claims that biological men are women when covering trans issues, Ofcom has said.

The media regulator warned GB News in a letter seen by The Telegraph that it could not treat the controversy as settled, despite the Supreme Court victory for women’s rights campaigners in April 2025.

But it’s not a controversy.

Granted, there are people who try to make it one. There are people who claim that biological men are women. But they’re wrong; wrong in a very crude obvious unmistakable sense. It’s not a genuine controversy, it’s a performance of controversy based on an absurd blatant falsehood.

The media regulator warned GB

No. That’s not how that works.

Why I Use Trans People’s Preferred Pronounshttps://t.co/Dhsjx8sR1x pic.twitter.com/aj10Y0dhlv

— Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) June 27, 2025

No, he doesn’t choose “being kind.” He says he does, but he doesn’t. Being kind is not what he’s choosing. He’s choosing a performance of “being kind” which is actually being astonishingly rude and aggressive and hostile to women.

When was it ruled that letting men who pretend to be women do whatever they want is what “being kind” means, while defending women’s rights is the very opposite of “being kind”? It’s clear that that’s what Benjamin Ryan thinks “being kind” means, so I wonder why he thinks that. Why does he see women as not in need … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Karen the Chemist on Near the crater.

Re risk taking: Ego is a factor.

Common objections to instituting safety measures or changing how they handle a chemical:

We’ve been handling it this way for years and haven’t had problems. Things have been going fine, no problems, without [safety procedure].

Another common attitude is that people think that they won’t have a mishap* with a chemical because they are careful. They assume they are very careful, certainly more careful, and a better chemist, than those who did have mishaps.

And those who claim they don’t need eye protection because they’ll use their arm or hand to shield their eyes. As if they could raise them quick … Read the rest

Benjamin Ryan is happy to bully women in general, but when there’s a sleb involved suddenly he wants to chat. Toady.

I’d love to interview you to discuss this if you’re open to it and want to DM me, @JK_Rowling. Many thanks.

— Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) June 29, 2025

Yes of course he’d love to discuss it with her.

I was explicit about my position on this in the essay I published in 2020.

"I've read all the arguments about femaleness not residing in the sexed body, and the assertions that biological women don't have common experiences, and I find them deeply misogynistic and regressive……

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 29, 2025

“I’ve read all the arguments about femaleness

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Are they though?

… the part that gets me is how much disputed stuff just slides by as obvious, assumed knowledge and common perspective, things that “everyone” supposedly thinks.

And all the stuff we’re supposed to let slide, in the interests of Not Being Seen to be Siding With Fascists on Anything:

Whatever your views are about the metaphysics of sex and gender, or about trans persons in sports or prisons, or about what kinds of medical care trans youth should have—topics which are difficult and about which it’s not unreasonable to have various views….

But nobody is supposed to voice these views, or question the genderist staus quo, so as … Read the rest